Archive | April 2012

SHOPPING~ Some cool items I found on my trip to the mall

Here are some cool and unique items I spotted on my latest shopping trip. Some of these are definate must-have’s, and the others are just neat. Of course I will update you if any of these are added to my collection ;). Take a look, you might see something you like.

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Ring shopping….Yay me!!!!

Oh, YOU CLICKED CAUSE YOU THOUGHT I WAS TALKING ABOUT THAT KIND OF RING SHOPPING. LOL, unfortunetely no, I was just fashion ring shopping at the The Bay Days sale located in the OC(Oshawa Center mall).

Check out these unqiue rings.

This is probably one of thes nicest rings I have ever seen. Its a parrot’s head, covered in faux gold and crystals. Just beautiful!!! This ring is retailing for $24.99 with an additional 30% off. Gotta love it.

$6.99 Additional 50% OFF

Random Gems $9.99 Additional 50% OFF

Lizard ring: $16.99 Additional 30% OFF

Eagle head: $9.99 Additional 50% OFF

Pink ring to match my sweater: PRICELESS
LOL..ok Really it`s $6.99 Additional 50%

Swirls:$6.99 Additional 50% OFF

Sheild ring: $6.99 Additional 50% OFF

Leopard paw wrap around ring: $6.99 Additional 50% OFF

swirls with white crystal wrap around ring: $6.99 Additional 50% OFF

Another FAV 

Lepoard crystal headed ring with green eyes: $7.99 Additional 50% OFF

ANOTHER FAV

Looks 1000000000000 X better in person.

Triple stoned, triple finger wrap ring: $6.99 Additional 50% OFF

Huge charcoal crystal ring: $9.99 Additional 50% OFF

Not only were rings on special, necklaces, bracelets and earings were too. Here’s just a few that caught my eyes

The Bay wasn’t the only great place for jewellry. Look at what I found at H&M in the OC. These peices were all regular price.

AND FINALLY, THE BEST RING DEAL ………..

was at Stitches located at Hwy 401 and Brock rd in Pickering, ON.

Elephant ring with crystals: $1.50

Here it is beside my first, original leopard ring. I still luv u!

Luuuv

Now, ladies I advise you to go out and see what your local Bay has to offer. Hurry, before its all gone!!!!

Happy Shopping!!

My shopping trip~ The Bay Days Hand bag sale

 I’m really excited to share the wonderful items that I spotted today while out shopping on the OC(Oshawa Center mall) today. I found some amazing deals on super cool items.

 I went to THE BAY for the BAY DAYS SALE. They are having a 25% – 30% off all handbags, and wallets. Now this isn’t only the basic handbags and wallets, all the designer ones are on too. I was spotting handbags for $75.00 and $65.00, wallets went from as low $20.00 – $50.00. There were even tablet cases, they were $20.00 – $30.00 depending on the size and style, with an additional30% off.

How much better could it get. I was having a ball just looking and comparing. They even had featured items. I spotted the HOTTEST leopard print bag that was originally $130.00, but they had it displayed for $69.99. This bag is available in black & grey leopard or tan leopard print. I definetely will be returning to grab this bag….first I have to decide which one I like better. Take a look for yourself and you be the judge.

Here is the black & grey one, cute too….if your going for a neutral look. «Not that leopard print is neutral lol, but you get where I am going with this.

Here are some other cool handbags that caught my eye. The Ivanka Trump, Pink leopard one is definately one of my favs. A MUST HAVE!! Oh, and the fifth & sixth purse from the last is the same purse, it has different fabric on both sides, COOL!

Quick temperary fix to out of style fabric on wing back chair!

Now this is not meant to be the permanent solution, but it can work for any occasion just to upgrade the look in your home, for a short period of time while needed.

Supplies needed:

*Fabric

*Chair

*long and short sewing ball pins

*and your hands 😉

Now, my fabric was purchased from fabricland in Toronto, but feel free to venture anywhere you want to find your unique fabric print. I went with a Leopard mixed with zebra fabric as well as a solid hot pink that was going to add that extra tad of elegance within my livingroom. This way I could change up the look often.

My fabric was 54″ across and 78.7″ length. I chose this measurement because i needed enough to cover the front of my chair and I also need to have enough fabric left over to wrap around to the sides and bottom of the chair. About 10″ I left around the sides, you can decide how much you will leave depending on what suits your style of chair.

Now start with spreading the fabric over the front of the chair making sure the seat is fully covered and all sides have an equal amount  remainding, the bottom is allowed to have the least amount of fabric beacuse it wont be seen as much as the sides and back of the chair.

Start to tuck all fabric in and around the sitting part of the chair, make sure to “smooth the fabric, then tuck”. Always make sure the fabric is smooth before moving on. Depending on what type of chair it is, you can even pin down into the crevice of the chair to secure it won’t move, but you dont have to. I didn’t and it is fine. If you do choose this, then you will need an extra piece to cover the seat of the chair, you might even have tosew a cushion cover( which is not that simple, we won’t get into all that)

Tuck and pin

Now, once the seat part is all smoothed and tucked and pinned in the creases, smooth upward along the backrest. Work your way up the middle and tuck each edge into the sides pinning as you move up. Once you reach the top of the chair, take as much pins as needed and pin as tight as you can to assure that the fabric does not shift and is smooth. This is very important because if the pins are not snug, they will pop out eventually (not SAFE AT ALL).

Now, it is all safe to move onto wrapping the fabric around the sides of the backrest of the wing chair. For this I use a tuck and  fold method. This is when you pull the fabric tightly, slightly folding it, in order to roll over corners or edges, without a bulky look. Continue this down ward to the arm rest.

Roll and tuck and pin

 Roll and tuck and pin

Roll and tuck and pin

Now pull and pin fabric under the curve of the arm rest, this part must be asbolutely smooth. You wanna make sure that all pins are secure, since the arm rest gets a lot of pressure place upon it when people are sitting in the chair.

 Now move onto tucking in any loose fabric all around the chair. Dont forget to pin the fabric down in front of the chair and underneath the chair and at the top of the chair towards the backside of the chair. Remember, you want to pin the fabric around the legs, to not cover it and keep the chair fabric lines looking as clean and neat as possible.

 

This is the View from the top of the chair, looking down towards the backrest. This is where you should be pinning.

The chair is almost complete!

This is the view of under neath the chair, where you will pin the fabric to secure that it keeps everything in place.

 This is what the final product should look like. Now, once again, this is temperary. Only the front has been covered. This is a quick fix to update the look fast, when guests are visiting. I will update you all ith a more permanant solution in the future, so come back and check it out. Goodluck!!

Now the final over all look

Now………..

The pink version…….I luvv this one the best!!!

Cool party souveneir idea for any age

Cool party souveneir idea I came up with when planning my sons birthday party. I wanted something that had to do with him, something personal. So since his name is KING … I chose the theme The Royal Crown.

For this project you will need:

  • Pencil
  • Eraser
  • Foam sheets
  • Sheet of paper
  • Marker
  • Scissors
  • Lollipops
  • Tape or paper clips

Step 1: draw out a stencil pattern shape using your sheet of paper. Once you have the shape you want, cut it out using your scissors. Yay, step 1 complete!!

Step 2: Take your foam sheets and figure out how many of your shapes can fit onto one sheet. For my shape, I could fit four shapes onto one sheet of foam. If your pattern is similar to mine, fold your foam directly down the center once, then again to create four equal rectangles. Unfold this sheet and darken all fold lines with either your pencil or marker, to make it easier when cutting.

Step 3: Cut out all rectangles using your scissors. I ended up with four sheets of foam, divided by four, which left me with sixteen rectangles.

Step 4: This can be done two ways. You can either fasten two pieces of foam rectangles together using your tape or paper clips, or you can  keep them as singles. Now trace your stencil onto your foam.

Step 5: CUT. Cut out each shape out of the foam as neat as you can. Detach any tape or paper clip, if you chose this method. Lay out all shapes and personalize with a message. My message read, Kings 4th B-day. You can write whatever you choose.

Step 6: Take the point of your scissors and poke a small hole into the direct center of your shape. Rock the scissors gently, while applying pressure to the foam. You might want to have a scrap piece of foam to place under this peice of foam to avoid injury, or damages to furniture.

Step7: Insert lollipop sticks into foam from the blank backside, through to the front. Now you are done. Your cool party souveneirs are complete and ready to be displayed.